One Minute at Hull School of Art and Design

22.10.09
Nick Jordan's How the Air Feels to the Birds Dates: 26 October -12 November 2009 5pm | Location: Foyer Gallery Space, Hull School of Art and Design The third volume of One Minute brings together an array of artists whose work encompasses stop frame, video, film, Super8 and 16mm, split screen, superimposition, animation, digital and live action. All have one thing in common; they have been edited ...
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Competition: Conference – animated conversations created live by Javier Mariscal

22.10.09
Conference: animated conversations created live by Javier Mariscal On 2 November renowned Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal will be performing at the BFI Southbank in London. By creating and controlling animation film footage in real time, Mariscal has devised his ‘Conference’ which is the spontaneous and instantaneous application of his creative thinking onto the silver screen. In this energetic live performance Mariscal manifests the ...
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AL and AL get off at Edge Hill

22.10.09
XXX: Get Off at Edge Hill APEngine talks to artists AL and AL, winners of the Liverpool Art Prize 2009, about XXX: Get Off at Edge Hill, a show they’ve curated to open Metal’s new space at Liverpool’s Edge Hill Station. I want to ask you about your work as curators, but the background to that you’ve been collaborating as artists for a long time, and I ...
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Editing by Jo Ann Kaplan

21.10.09
Orphee, Jean Cocteau Here are 8 “magic” cuts. By “magic” I mean cuts or edits, or sequences made therefrom, which make my heart stop and my mouth open in suspension of disbelief, amazement, and excess of feeling.   1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid, 1943) The first cut in the film, a jump cut, from the shot of the dummy hand holding a poppy ...
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Stare Into The Sun by Ian Stevenson

19.10.09
Stare Into The Sun by Ian Stevenson Come, journey into the fantastical world of artist Ian Stevenson‘s playful, yet somewhat disturbed creatures. The soundtrack by Grafitti 6, (which you may recognise as previously having featured in an advert for a tabloid newspaper) has redeemed itself here, accompanying the unhappy hero of the tale as he bounds about the fantastical forest. And who wouldn’t be smiling after a ...
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UK Film Council and British Film Institute will become one

19.10.09
BFI: merging in 2010 [this post has been revised] We hear that the merging of UK Film Council and BFI  – ‘mooted’ by the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport in August – is going to happen, with the two organisations being told they’ll become one by April 2010. Officially, it’s not a done deal, and it’s certainly a tight schedule; it probably doesn’t make the ...
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Sarah Turner on Perestroika

16.10.09
Sarah Turner APEngine talks to Sarah Turner, about her new experimental feature, Perestroika, which premieres at the London Film Festival. Why did you start making films? Oh god, I wasn’t really expecting a question like that! I went to art school because basically I was useless. Like everyone who goes to art school. There’s a quote – something like “People who go to art school don’t know what to ...
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